Project Controls & Scheduling Engineers & Leads - Project Farma

Description

The company is a scientific solutions provider with an 80+ year history, backed by a global service network and distribution centers, and it works with commercial, government, academic and healthcare clients.

The company's Project Controls practice is growing and will consider candidates with 0-7+ years of relevant experience.

The team runs high-quality life sciences projects from start to finish, with the goal of speeding up life-changing therapies for patients.

Team members work with cross-functional groups to earn client trust, improve the customer experience and support business growth through data-driven planning of cost, schedule and performance.

Expected values are being curious, personable and unselfish, with a patient-focused, people-first attitude.

The role applies advanced technical skill to solve hard problems and shape technical direction.

Senior Engineers run workstreams on their own, spot risks and improvement opportunities, and act as trusted advisors who mentor others and take ownership of quality.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients, vendors, contractors and internal colleagues on biomanufacturing projects across the full engineering lifecycle.
• Build and maintain project schedules, including detailed integrated schedules developed with project management, client management and site staff.
• Lead or support deliverables such as summary project plans, milestone reports, detailed execution schedules, activity tracking and variance reports.
• Produce budget estimates, cost reports, forecast trend analyses, issue and risk reports, scenario analyses, and scope and change impact analyses.
• Prepare comprehensive monthly project status reports.
• Analyse complex project data and present clear, concise findings that support decisions.
• Align with client departments such as Design, Construction, Validation, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain and Engineering.
• Pass project information on in a timely way, and share in-field decisions and their long-term and downstream impacts.
• Give hands-on support and troubleshooting to clients working through the engineering lifecycle of advanced equipment and manufacturing processes.
• Maintain project tools such as site dashboards, detailed schedules and deliverable trackers.
• Check the quality of subject-matter inputs to produce reliable deliverables.
• Flag roadblocks early, escalate them, and find practical solutions.
• Help meet monthly billable targets set on site dashboards.
• Keep building knowledge of life-science project controls, including CAPEX projects, facility shutdowns and turnarounds, technology transfers, enterprise system integrations, validation lifecycle work, quality and compliance, GxP automated systems, quality control and operational readiness.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in technical sciences, engineering, regulatory or a related field, or an equivalent combination of experience in project controls, general construction, cGMP facility start-up, project management or comparable military service.
• Have 1-7 years of relevant experience.
• Have advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Preferred: experience with Microsoft Project, Oracle Primavera P6 or Smartsheet.
• Preferred: alignment with the pharma and/or general construction industry.
• Be willing to travel as needed for client project assignments.
• Show technical delivery, sound judgement, clear communication, reliable execution, a growth mindset and integrity.

Conditions

Full-time role based in one of the Southeast markets: Huntsville, AL; Charlotte, NC; Greenville, NC; or Raleigh, NC.

Sites include Concord, NC (customer site), Greenville, NC, Huntsville, AL and Raleigh, NC.

Travel within the United States may be significant to meet project and business needs.

You must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. The company will not sponsor work visas now or in the future.

The company cannot employ anyone with an invalid driver's license.

Annual base pay ranges from $60,000 to $113,000. The final offer depends on internal equity, work location, and the candidate's skills, experience, education and training.